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Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Railway bridge section

1850

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

John Ellis

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858